Maine · Nonprofit
Maine Irish Heritage Center
Maine Irish Heritage Center (Maine) receives grants from 10 organizations whose IRS filings report $73,858 to it, the largest being HAROLD ALFOND FOUNDATION ($25,000). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $659k
- Funders on record
- 10
- Grants received
- $74k
- Net assets
- $800k
What Maine Irish Heritage Center does
Mission
Our nonprofit and charitable mission is to provide an accessible community resource, where connections to Maine's Irish history and culture can flourish through historic preservation, arts and culture.Initiatives supporting this mission include:1. Protecting, preserving, restoring, and interpreting the historic St. Dominic's Church, itself a monument to the early Irish community life in Maine and a structure of great historical and architectural significance to the City of Portland and State of Maine;2. Providing a center for Maine's diverse communities to share their cultural experiences through artistic and educational programs and community events;3. Housing within the building historic artifacts, the Maine Irish Genealogical Center, Archives, and Library, preserving the story of Irish history in Maine; and4. Promoting the general welfare by having said building open to the public and providing a public space where community groups and members of the public may gather.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
To protect, preserve, and restore the historic landmark that was formerly St. Dominic's Church, a hub of early Irish community in Maine; to provide a center for Maine's diverse communities to share their cultural experiences through education programs and community events; and to house Maine's Irish genealogical center, museum, archives and library, preserving the story of Irish history in Maine.
$22,421 spentof which $2,500 as grants$149,679 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2025 Form 990. Program spending in total: $22,421.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2017, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2017, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2024 to 2025, from $546k to $823k (+51%).
How it's funded, over time
Each bar is one year's revenue split into where it came from, and every bar is the same height — these are shares, not amounts, so a year that raised twice as much looks the same size. Hover a bar for the split.
Government-grant reliance: 2020 18% · 2021 5% · 2022 38% · 2023 36% · 2024 31% · 2025 54%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
77% of Maine Irish Heritage Center’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (64% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Leadership and staff
The officers, directors, trustees and key employees listed on each return. Joined and no longer listed compare each filing with the year before, matching people by surname and first initial; a year after a gap, or a roster under three people, has no comparison.
Chief executive
Eric Brown
Executive Director
Board chair
James A McClay
Board Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2022 and FY2023 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base held at 2 funders, grant income fell $22k → $333.
3 of 10 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 37% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
From the IRS filings of Maine Irish Heritage Center’s funders (the co-funder graph). Association, not causation. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
How concentrated its funding is
Maine Irish Heritage Center leans on a few funders — its largest provides 34% of grant income and the top three 83%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
58% of the income these shares are computed over arrives through pass-through sponsors or from payers whose filings do not say what kind of payment it is. Concentration is still measured over all of it, because the money is real; what it does not support is a claim about how many institutions have chosen to fund Maine Irish Heritage Center.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 98% · 2018 100% · 2019 89% · 2020 58% · 2021 99% · 2022 98% · 2023 75% — diversifying over time.
“Effective funders” = inverse Herfindahl index (1 / Σ shareᵢ²) — the number of equal-sized funders that would give the same concentration. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
How long its funders stay
25% of Maine Irish Heritage Center's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 20% give in more than one year at all.
Share of funders still giving k years after their first recorded grant, pooled across every acquisition cohort. A funder counts as retained in a year only if it made a grant that year. Measured to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving — a funder cannot be counted as lapsed in a year most filers have not reached.
Where its funders are
100% of Maine Irish Heritage Center's grant income comes from Maine funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $28k arriving through sponsors registered in 3 states is excluded from the map and the split above: a sponsor holds money on a donor’s behalf, so its registered address would place those dollars somewhere no donor need ever have been. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
Against its field
Maine Irish Heritage Center runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 12,262 arts & culture nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 12,262 arts & culture nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Government funding Maine Irish Heritage Center receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $3.0M on record.
- Department of Housing and Urban Development$3.0M
Federal grants vs contracts are distinguished; state line items keep their reported category. Matched by name + geography (the BMF), so coverage is partial and precision-first.
Organizations like Maine Irish Heritage Center
Organizations whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over every organization in the US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.
In Maine
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
6% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
100%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for Maine Irish Heritage Center: IRS status (Business Master File, Publication 78, auto-revocation), the OFAC sanctions lists, the Internal Revenue Bulletin, and California registration, with the Rev. Proc. 2018-32 §8.01 reliance elements stated element by element. Generated from the current files at the moment you download it.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds Maine Irish Heritage Center?
- Maine Irish Heritage Center (Maine) receives grants from 10 organizations whose IRS filings report $73,858 to it, the largest being HAROLD ALFOND FOUNDATION ($25,000). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Maine Irish Heritage Center have?
- IRS filings report 10 organizations giving $73,858 in grants to Maine Irish Heritage Center, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Maine Irish Heritage Center?
- HAROLD ALFOND FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $25,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Maine Irish Heritage Center find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Maine. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
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These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), and the filings of 10 funders that report grants to it. “On record” means captured in the filings we have parsed — a funder that does not e-file, or whose grant detail is not itemized, will not appear. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind. Trends on this page end at FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving; later years are shown and marked, and move no figure. Data on this page was exported October 22, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing